infoDev's new Guide for Creating Your Own Angel Investor Group aims to educate entrepreneurs and angels from around the globe. It offers hands-on examples, such as financial worksheets, application forms, term sheets, contracts, and checklists that may be used as templates. The publication is a substantial update of the original Kauffman Foundation’s 2004 guidebook, which targeted a U.S. audience. This international edition is written specifically for newcomers to angel investing, and highlights the successes and challenges of angel groups in emerging and frontier markets.

The explosion of creative activity in smartphone and tablet applications continues to spread across the Caribbean, as budding technology entrepreneurs upgrade their skills and get ready for the world of business. With less than two weeks to go before the start of Digital Jam 3.0 "Caribbean Edition," mobile app competitors and their mentors are working feverishly to fine-tune and finish their entries on time for the March 1-2 event at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Regional Headquarters in Mona, Jamaica.

January 27 will mark the official launch in Freeport, Trinidad, of the Caribbean Climate Innovation Center (CCIC), designed to help clean energy and climate technology ventures transform the region to a low-carbon economy and create green jobs.

Thirteen international startups have been selected by the VentureOut Challenge—an initiative of infoDev and CRDF Global—to compete before a live audience and a panel of mobile experts in Chisinau, Moldova on November 1, 2013.

The VentureOut Challenge—a campaign by infoDev and CRDF Global to help mobile apps go international—announced today the 24 competitors with the most potential and preparation to enter new international markets.

In a test of what entrepreneurship enablers can achieve by partnering across borders, infoDev-backed VentureOut Challenge is helping startups take their apps to the phones of customers in other countries.

The infoDev study “Building Competitive Green Industries” estimates that over the next decade $6.4 trillion will be invested to develop clean technologies in developing countries. Business incubation specialist Michael Ehst explains why 6.4 represents the key to a greener and more prosperous future for all of us.